The scientists systematically expounded the global invasion pattern of the Western Flower Horse

Recently, the International Entomological Journal, The Annual Review of Entomology, published a guest review article online, comprehensively and systematically expounded the global invasion pattern of the world's major agricultural pest, Xihua Puma, and put forward an effective comprehensive prevention and control strategy, which provides an important scientific basis for a better understanding of this major invasive species.Gao Yulin, author of the
article and a researcher at the Institute of Plant Protection of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, told the China Science Journal that Xihua puma is native to North America and is distributed in more than 50 countries on all continents, including the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania, and has become a major agricultural pest worldwide.
In China, since the first report was made in 2003 on the discovery of Xihua Puma in a warm room on the outskirts of Beijing, there have been reports of damage to Xihua Puma in Yunnan, Hebei, Zhejiang, Shandong, Jilin, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Xinjiang and other provinces.
the western flower horse to eat the plant's stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, resulting in plant withering, but also tomato-spotted virus, including a variety of important vectors of the virus. The article points out that its host range, food clutter, host plants including potatoes, eggplants, peppers, cucumbers, flowers, bananas, mangoes and other more than 500 kinds of important cash crops and food crops. With the rapid development of international trade and the rise of pesticide resistance, xihua puma has gradually invaded and spread in the world, and aggravated the spread of tomato zest virus in a variety of crops, has become a major pest in agriculture.
"'Small bugs, big harm' has become an important label of The West Flower Horse, which brings great threats to the agricultural economic development and ecological environment protection in many countries." Gao Yulin said.
research was carried out by Oregon State University, Keeler University, university of California, University of Vahningen University and Research Center in the Netherlands, university of Florida, etc. The study was funded by the National Key Research and Development Program.
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